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John Wood sees it with numbing regularity: the query letter that comes close to making a sale - until the writer makes some avoidable mistake and dooms the pitch to rejection. So the Modern Maturity senior editor wrote this letter-writer's guidebook. Read it, learn from it, use the secrets it reveals to write queries too customized, too exciting, too good to turn down. As you publish more, your professional correspondence will increase. With the help...

Before there were workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says author and teacher Prose. Prose invites you on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the very best writers and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is moved...

Other non-fiction books by Lee HIgbie iii BJ Creighton Novels iii Preface vii Light Your Writing on Fire 1 Chapter 1-Basics 1 The First Page 1 Point of View and Narrative Distance 3 Inspiration 5 The 10 Commandments to Avoid Logical Fallacies 6 Revision 7 Plotters, Pantsers and Posters 11 Chapter 2-Abecedary 13 An Alliterative Abecedary for Aspiring Authors 13 ABCDs for Writers 13 Chapter 3-Prose Terms 17 A Table of Prose Figures of...

The right words are oxygen to our ideas, but the digital era, with all of its TTYL, LMK, and WTF, has been cutting off that oxygen flow. The compulsion to be precise has vanished from our culture, and in writing of every kind we see a trend towards more--more speed and more information but far less clarity. Evans provides practical examples of how editing and rewriting can make for better communication, even in the digital age.

Contains advice on writing effective business and social letters in forty subject areas, with lists of words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs relevant to each topic, and sample letters that may be reproduced and modified for individualized use

"With more than two hundred how-to entries and easy-to-use models organized into three comprehensive sections on work, school, and personal life, How to Write Anything covers a wide range of topics that make it an essential guide for the whole family. Grounded in a common-sense approach, friendly and supportive, How to Write Anything is Internet-savvy, with advice throughout about choosing the most appropriate medium for your message: e-mail or pen...